Elephant Park

Today we went to the elephant park, it was really cool, they had an elephant show, an elephant ride, and a bamboo raft ride.

During the elephant show the elephants would paint pictures, either self portraits or flowers. They had one elephant that was four paint some flowers and it looked really good, for his age that is. Ora Chai, one of the older elephants, painted a tree with flowers on it and even signed his name.

They also had one elephant play soccer and basket ball. He missed most of the time but got the ball in the goal once when he was playing soccer.

For the elephant rides they had a seat on top of the elephants back and you had to go up a ramp unto some platform and then you had to climb from the platform unto the elephants back and then to the seat. They put us two people per elephant and I was put with brother2. When we first started brother2 was breathing really hard and clinging to the rail.

For the bamboo raft ride we got to go down a little hill climb down a ramp and walk across a bunch of unstable rafts till we got to the raft at the very end and then we sat down and shoved off.

After a while we started to get bored, it was a long ride, so the driver stopped and told brother1 to come and try to steer. So brother1 got up and tried (he wasn’t that bad) and then after a few minutes let brother2 try. He wasn’t as good and got a shorter turn. Then my turn came. I walked up to the front of the raft, trying to keep my balance and grabbed the bamboo pole from brother2.

For a hollow bamboo pole it was pretty heavy and was hard to lift. I don’t know how well I did but I know I was up there longer than brother2.

When we finally left we were hot and sweaty, not quite ready for church. Luckily we came home before going to church.